Abstract
This research focuses on developing a computational model for analysing wind turbine blade erosion induced by raindrop impact. A stochastic rain texture model is used to simulated realistic rain events determined by a rain intensity and a rain duration. A new smoothed particle hydrodynamic approach is implemented to study the influence of the raindrop size, impact speed, impact angle, and raindrop shape on the impact stress. In addition, a stress interpolation method is proposed to accurately and efficiently calculate the impact stress under a random rain event. The fatigue damage of the top coating material is evaluated under a rain event based on the rainflow cycle counting method and the Miner's rule.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 012048 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 1452 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Mar 3 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | North American Wind Energy Academy, NAWEA 2019 and the International Conference on Future Technologies in Wind Energy 2019, WindTech 2019 - Amherst, United States Duration: Oct 14 2019 → Oct 16 2019 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy